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No. 255,177. Patented Mar. 21,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I GEORGE S. LONG, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESN E ASSIGNMENTS, '1O P. J. DAROY, OF SAME PLACE.

BASKET, 8w.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,177, dated March 21, 1882.

Application filed November 27, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it mdy concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. Lose, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements relating to Baskets, or Structures analogous to Baskets, of which the following is a specification.

I use for the main body of the structure a tube of woven material, made in the mannerdescribed in my patent for belting, dated August 31, 1880, but not as thick. The longitudinal wires of the tube serve to give great vertical strength to the structure.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification, and represent what 1 consider the best means of carrying out the invention. V

Figure l is a central vertical section. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section.

Similarletters ofreferenceindicate likeparts in the figures.

The main body A is woven as a tube, or what is generally termed seamless, with the warp of wire extending up and down and the filling of cotton, hemp, or other fiber extending horizontally. The material may be identical with that described in my said patent, but thinner and with the filling twisted harder.

B is a bottom of wood in two thin layers, applied together with the grain crossing each other and cemented with shellac, and also thickly fastened with small rivets, giving strength with lightness and a great capacity to receive nails and like fastenings.

O is a hoop of galvanized iron fitted within the body at the upper edge.

D D are wires ofgalvanized iron or steel ofsufficientlength and thickness, inserted through wooden handles E E and extended down the opposite sides just outside of the body, as shown. The ends of each are flattened and pointed, and are bent sharply, as shown, and applied and clinched through the bottom. They are also fastened with nails F, clinched through thebottom,andwithstaples G,clinched through the sides.

I is a hoop encircling the top, and J a similar hoop encircling the bottom. Both are formed by suitable machinery with short bends or waves (not shown) at the points where they cross the vertical wires D, so as to snugly embrace and sustain them. Hoop I is riveted to the inner hoop, G. Hoop J is nailedstrongly to the bottom B with nails H.

Modifications may be made in many of thedetails. The handle E may be omitted, and the basket and its load carried by taking hold directly on the upper parts of the properly-bent stout wires D. The bottom may be a single thickness.

I especially deem it practicable to make the fabric A in asingle plyor thicknessoffabric, employing wires for the warp ofsufficient strength to give great stifiuess and durability to the material without the straight wires, which I pre for to employ in my belts.

The parts may be made and put together with great rapidity by machinery. The nails and staples G are of tough iron or semi-steel, and, being applied and forced in by machinery, are clinched by meeting a surface of metal properly curved to impart a reliable clinch.

I propose in some instances to employ my woven fabric A with the wires extending up and down, as described, givingit vertical support without all or any of the other peculiarities of my basket.

Ido not claim any form of rubber or analogous coated material.

My fabric is cheaply made and porous.

I claim as my invention- 1. The vessel described, having a seamless body of woven material with a warp of wire extending up and down and a filling of fiber extendingaround horizontally, as herein specified.

2. In a vessel composed of woven material with the warp of wire extending up and down and the filling of fiber extending horizontally, the bottom B, of wood or analogous rigid material, hoops O I J, and stout wires D, with suitable fastenings, F G. H, combined and arranged to serve as herein specified.

In testimony whereofI have hereunto set my hand, at New York city, this 23d day of November, 1880, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

G. S. LONG.

Witnesses:

W. UOLBORNE BROOKES, W.-L. BENNEM. 

